General
Carlson, Robert H. 2010. Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Fumento, Michael. 2003. Bioevolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World. San Francisco: Encounter Books.
Grace, Eric S. 1997. Biotechnology Unzipped. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press.
Virtual Museum of Bacteria. A website of the Foundation of Bacteriology and the Society for Applied Microbiology.
www.bacteriamuseum.org/
Fermenting foods
Wassenaar, Dr. T.M. 2005. "Good bacteria in food." From the Virtual Museum of Bacteria website. 8 March 2005.
http://bacteriamuseum.org/cms/Food-And-Water-Safety/good-bacteria-in-food.html
Making lumber
Chung, Sandra. 2010. "INL scientists help harness bacteria power to brew eco-friendly plastic from waste." Idaho National Laboratory press article, 11 October 2010.
https://inlportal.inl.gov/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1269&mode=2&featurestory=DA_561588
Aiding medicine
Anonymous. 2009. "Genetically engineered bacteria are sweet success against inflammatory bowel disease." ScienceDaily, 21 August 2009.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090820204456.htm
Anonymous. 2005. "Bacteria modified to combat HIV." BBC News, 13 November 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4692905.stm
Venere, Emil. 2007. "Bacteria ferry nanoparticles into cells for early diagnosis, treatment." Purdue University press release, 13 June 2007.
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007a/070613BashirSmartnano.html
Advancing nanotech
Anonymous. 2008. "Putting bacteria to work as tiny weavers of nanoscale biomaterials." Nanotechnology website, 11 November 2008.
www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=8590
Fountain, Henry. 2009. "Working as a team, bacteria spin gears." The New York Times, 22 December 2009.
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22obgear.html
Powering fuel cells
Anonymous. 2009. "Harnessing bacterial production of nanomagnets." Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory press release, 30 September 2009.
www.als.lbl.gov/als/science/sci_archive/193nanomagnets.html
Producing biofuels
Biello, David. 2010. "Biofuel from bacteria." Scientific American, April 2010, 21-22.
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biofuel-from-bacteria
Steen, Eric J. et al. 2010. "Microbial production of fatty-acid-derived fuels and chemicals from biomass." Nature: 463, 559-562, 28 January 2010.
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7280/abs/nature08721.html
Cleaning oil spills
Biello, David. 2010. "Slick solution: How microbes will clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill." Scientific American, 25 May 2010.
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-microbes-clean-up-oil-spills